Hey! You know who had a conservative clean cut hair style? Ted Bundy. And look how he turned out. What an example of excellence!

I can’t believe it’s 2020 and schools are still doing this shit. 

I don’t think trauma is something you get “trained” into- like, spanking isn’t going to prepare you to deal with death. And it’s not going to prepare you to deal with getting dumped, or fired, or how to deal with war or addiction.

Life itself is going to bitchslap us all upside of the head hundreds of times; I don’t…

I tended towards being verbally teased, myself (I also tended to keep to myself because I was shy), but not physically bullied, but I was also an eager-to-please type so I tended not to get into trouble.

My mom spanked when we’d screwed up, so it wasn’t a case of not knowing when she’d strike- in fact, she did…

My predominantly white elementary school in south central PA in the late 1970s also had it- the principal was legendary for his paddle with holes in it.

I was in the same school district for my entire K-12, and by the time you got to the middle school, and then the high school, the bullying was pretty awful for a lot…

Ha! Maybe. Certainly everyone seems to know the urban legend. I have disappointed so many friends when I’ve said, no, I saw him interviewed about it and actually he was just really mad at his ex-wife.

We took my then 8 year old to see him a couple of years ago on the I’m Not Dead tour (the kid was obsessed at the time with “In the Air Tonight”). He put on a pretty good show for an old guy who can’t drum anymore himself.  We had a really good time.

We elected Giuliani twice, too.  We’re big into the sunk cost fallacy when it comes to our Mayors.

de Blasio isn’t eligible to run again; NYC mayors have a 2-term limit and he’s not rich like Bloomberg, so he can’t buy a 3rd term from the City Council.

Uncanny  County is anthology, so you don’t have to listen to all episodes, or in any particular order.  It’s like a Southwestern Twilight Zone.

While I’m not surprised, as West Virginia is really, really red, I am curious how they teach West Virginia’s break-off from Virginia during “The War of Northern Aggression.” 

Yeah... West Virginia today is really red.  Much more so than the state they broke away from, which is turning more blue as time goes by.

I get so crazy when people I know, who should know better, start up with, “Well, but there are so many MORE vaccines now than when we were kids...” Yes, of course there are! Because science, you fools!

Gadzooks, if I could have had the chicken pox vaccine... and Scotland has vastly reduced cervical cancer in women who…

The summer after my freshman year in high school, I went to the south of France to study French for the month of July in beautiful Avignon. I registered for the program months before the end of the school year, when things were going well, but by the time the school year ended, I was in a tough emotional place- my…

I got them at age 15, right as summer vacation started. You’re right; no child should have to go through it, and definitely no teenager. I made sure my kid got both of the immunization shots for it.  The thought that he will never have to deal with shingles, either, makes me happy.

I moved into an old tenement building in NYC that I did not know was overrun with mice until I started noticing that my underwear were getting holes in the crotches. While they were folded in my underwear drawer.

As soon as I started watching the video I could tell what had happened before (that she was refusing to leash her poorly behaved dog). I found his FB post about the incident, and, as an NYC dog owner who is frequently infuriated by dog owners who ignore the leash laws (and it’s been getting worse during the…

I would also have loved a few more seconds to see that basement, too!  The movie is a pretty faithful adaptation of the book, and so I guess they didn’t want to put in anything verbally that wasn’t in the book, but boy did they do some cool things visually that opened all kinds of questions.

Having seen both films in the theater, I would have been glad to present as a witness in your defense at the trial.

What a great article; I loved reading this and now I want to go back and rewatch Seasons 1-4 (because the school season was GREAT). I think Stringer Bell is the Icarus of The Wire. Had he not been so desperate to go legit, he would have continued along as he was, but, like D’Angelo, he also, ultimately, wanted out,…

I saw the movie 3 times in the theater, and dozens of times on video. It’s about as perfect as a horror movie gets. I’m looking back on almost 30 year old memories now, and it was the early 1990s, so much less was understood by cisgender folk like me about gender non-conformity, but I recall not thinking that Gumb…